Caryl Phillips Quotes

#1. If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Baltasar Gracian

#2. Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you.

Caryl Phillips

#3. Their hearts began to swell with the pity that one feels for a fellow being who has lost both his way and his sense of purpose.

Caryl Phillips

#4. Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.

Colin Dexter

#5. I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

Jim Bakker

#6. Don't play on safe, you must learn few rules and the other is just lessons.

Deyth Banger

#7. Life is a series of saying "yes" and "no." The important part is knowing when to say which.

Cole NeSmith

#8. There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

Anaximander

#9. I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting
of murdering the memory.

Caryl Phillips

#10. I think the waiters and hostess are beginning to recognize me. They must either think I'm the most popular girl in Chicago or a lesbian seriously looking for The One. Either option is far less embarrassing than the truth: 'I'm here auditioning best friends forever!

Rachel Bertsche

#11. A writer often wants to change a reader's perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.

Caryl Phillips

#12. I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we've rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose; and conducted a few military exercises in the Baltic states.

Carly Fiorina

#13. The light on her face was a lesson, a book that she hoped he would want to read, but he looked away from her ... she did not want this man to leave her alone. He was kind. And she feared the loneliness of dreaming

Caryl Phillips

#14. How are you in the profession of protecting people without knowing who I am? I've been told I have one of the most recognizable faces in the world. (Aiden)
Wow ... just out of curiosity, when you go to bed at night, do you find yourself ousted off the mattress by that ego? (Leta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon